American Oriental Society

HISTORY AND PURPOSE OF THE AMERICAN ORIENTAL SOCIETY

The American Oriental Society is the oldest learned society in the United States devoted to a particular field of scholarship. The Society was founded in 1842, preceded only by such distinguished organizations of general scope as the American Philosophical Society (1743), the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1780), and the American Antiquarian Society (1812). From the beginning its aims have been humanistic. The encouragement of basic research in the languages and literatures of Asia has always been central in its tradition. This tradition has come to include such subjects as philology, literary criticism, textual criticism, paleography, epigraphy, linguistics, biography, archaeology, and the history of the intellectual and imaginative aspects of Oriental civilizations, especially of philosophy, religion, folklore and art. The scope of the Society's purpose is not limited by temporal boundaries: All sincere students of man and his works in Asia, at whatever period of history are welcomed to membership.

AOS Western Branch Annual Meeting 2008

Greenfield Prize Competition 2007-2008 Announced

ANNUAL MEETING

Book Exhibit Information for Publishers

Graduate Student Award Fund for Travel to the Annual Meeting

Future Annual Meetings: 2009-2010

Travel Web Sites

Resolution on Looting of Archæological Sites in Iraq (2007)

Contibutors to the AOS Endowment Funds (2005)
Contibutors to the AOS Endowment Funds (2006)
Contibutors to the AOS Endowment Funds (2007)

American Oriental Society Medal of Merit Recipients

JAOS Table of Contents

Backrun of the Journal of the American Oriental Society vol. 1-124 (1843-2004) is now available at JSTOR.

2005 Membership Directory (Access is restricted to AOS members)

Officers of the Society (2008-2009)

American Council of Learned Societies Online Scholarly Resources

Publishers and Vendors:
Books for Review in JAOS: Instructions for Publishers
CLAIMS for Missing or Damaged Issues of JAOS

Constitution of the American Oriental Society
Constitution in PDF (36K)

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